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zeesm.bsky.social
Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶
@zeesm.bsky.social
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PhD in Entomology & certified scuba instructor. Queer trans masc neurospicy leftist invertebrate ecologist, scuba diver, kayaker, weightlifter, TTRPG gamer, scifi reader, cat lover, professional pessimist.
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Green sea turtle, Bonaire. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Foureye Butterfly Fish, Salt Pier, Bonaire. Lots of these little dudes at just about every dive site on the island. #scuba #diving #oceans
An oval fish with a little snout and a pale body with a thick vertical black line running through yje eye, and round black dot edged in white near the tail, and thin diagonal stripes running from the midline of the body diagonally toard the belly and back.
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Hovering above a porcupine fish. #scuba #diving
A mottled grey porcupine fish swims along a coral shelf.
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Midnight parrotfish at Candyland on Bonaire. At least 3 feet long. It was an astounding animal. #scuba #diving #oceans
A very large dark blue fish with a bright indigo head swims over a coral teef
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Sunset on Bonaire after a day of diving. #scuba
A cloudy sky suffused with an orange sunset over the ocean with a coral beach & low stone wall in the foreground.
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Happy Caturday from Io and Miska. #catsofbluesky
A chunky tuxedo cat with white ties and belly sprawls on her back. A shaggy tuxedo cat with white belly & feet is laying on his side. Both are on large grey cat beds on a futon.
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Not the best photo but this is one of the biggest wolffish I've seen while diving in the Pacific Northwest. It wasn't swimming, just hanging out and being very mellow. 🦑
a large wolffish with a long grey body and darker grey spots is coiled among kelp and rocks against a paler sandy background.
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Lewis' moon snail (Euspira lewisii), Sund Rock, Hood Canal WA. Named after Meriweather Lewis, who collected shells at the moht of the Columbia River 1804-1806. 🦑
The wrinkly pinkish-white body of a large snail protrudes from below a white shell
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Isabella Tiger Moth larva rescued from a walking path today. They've finished feeding for the season & are wandering in search of a sheltered spot to overwinter before pupating in spring. Antifreeze proteins protect their cells in freezing weather. #invertebrates #insects #entomology #Lepidoptera
A fuzzy wooly bear with black & brown bands is curled up defensively on a fallen green leaf.
October 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Full double rainbow on a wet day.
Two full rain ow arcs against a grey sky above a tree-lined street.
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Io is a ridiculous cat. 🐈 #catsofbluesky
A chonky black cat with white belly, toes, and chin is sprawled on her back on a futon with her head against her fluffy orange brother, who is curled up like a shrimp.
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Portland Waterfront is jammed for the #NoKings protest. Shout out to the Unpresidented Brass Band --you can break their clarinets but not their spirit. #Oregon #FrogStrong @wyden.senate.gov
Inflatable animal dance party Huge crowd of people on the Portland OR waterfront. A green banner with a golden fist holding a trumped & the words Unpresidented Brass Band.
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Todd Lake never disappoints. #pacificnorthwest #water
A calm alpine lake with a tangle of logs in the foreground & a pine forest & cloud-shrouded volcanic peak in the background. A small creek runs over bedrock & wood tangles.
October 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The lovely Deschutes River in Bend Oregon. #rivers
A fast flowing river dotted with boulders and edged by rocky bluffs with tall pine trees beneath a cloudy sky.
October 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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My pitcher plant, Lord of the Flies, flowered for the 1st time this year.
Close up of a pitcher plant flower with a curved stem & reddish-brown petals. Terra Cotta pit with a large pitcher plant with white-veined pitchers sporting a mahogany colored flower.
September 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Old man Miska is happy to have me home again. #catsofbluesky 🐈
A long haired cat with a white chest & muzzle & black head is sitting on a human's lap. His white whiskers & earfloofs are dramatic.
September 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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A view from Deception Pass. Great day to kayak.
A view across a bay with fir trees in the foreground & bluffs & a small island in the distance.
September 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Just finished reading T Kingfisher's @tkingfisher.com new novel that I nabbed at Rose City ComicCon Con last week. I resented not being able to just devour it in a single sitting. What a fantastic read.
The dust jacket of a book showing a red apple encircled by a snake & bundles of herbs with the title Hemlock & Silver and the author name T Kingfisher .
September 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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A very chonky Black slug (Arion ater) with my wife's hand for scale. I love how their moist l'il butts accumulate a tiny superhero cape of pine needles. #invertebrates
A glistening Black slug with eyestalks extended crawls across a pine needle-strewn trail. A human hand hovers above it to show how heckin' chonky it is.
September 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Deception Pass, Whidbey Island, Washington.
A broad expanse of smooth water in a bay framed by low wooded cliffs beneath a cloud-streaked sky.
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Kicked of Rose City ComicCon with the Wil Wheaton & Felicia Day panel. Hella enjoyable. Tomorrow, lots of author signings, including new John Scalzi, T Kingfisher, and Charlie Jane Anders.
Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day, and a moderator sit in armchairs on a stage in front of a black & red curtain.
September 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The Molalla River at its confluence with the Willamette on a stiflingly hot day. #water #rivers
A smooth expanse of river with some big wood sticking up and a border of pine trees on the far bank.
August 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Io has taken over as Keeper of Lore for today's Call of Cthulhu game. I sense she will show no mercy. 🐈 #catsofbluesky
A black cat with a white chest & white paw tips sits on a tablecloth in front of a wooden gamemaster screen and a black tray full of dice.
August 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Behold Jack the Juggernaut. 🐈 #catsofbluesky
A long-haired orange tabby with a fluffy curly white belly is stretched out on a brown cat bed with a fleece blanket patterned with sugar skulls behind him. He is perfect. A stuffed white rat is behind his noble head.
August 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Male Uracis fastigiata (Large Woodskimmer), La Selva, Costa Rica.
A dragonfly with a long slender pale blue abdomen and large black-tipped wings perches on a green leaf against a reddish-brown background.
August 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM